Re: [general] SourceForge banned Syria, Sudan, Iran and others

[Mohammed Sameer <msameer at foolab dot org>]

This has nothing to do with FOSS.
If your servers are located in the US then you will probably have to comply.
If you don't then you might end up in trouble with the US government.


A website like sourceforge and/or Google code are not there because the companies
behind it just love FOSS. It's there IMHO for a reason and a business model exists.

They have to protect themselves and their businesses.

I have to admit that the situation is lame but we have to live with it.

Cheers,

On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 08:45:27PM +0200, Hamed Al-Suhli wrote:
>  Syrians banned from google code and other services ages ago,
>  but [1]sf.net and rapidshare...etc banned us days ago, politically it's
>  other US movement against us,
>  but from open source prospective a BIG question is rising:
>  Is the open source really open?
>  OR just opened for US peer friends, or pets if not a peer?
>  On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 8:24 PM, Maja van der Velden
>  <[2]maja at xs4all dot nl> wrote:
> 
>  It is already banned.
>  See: [3]http://code.google.com/tos.html point 5:
>  Accessing Google Code website and its hosted contents is banned from
>  countries on the United States Office of Foreign Assets Control
>  sanction list, including Cuba, Iran, Libya, North Korea, Sudan and
>  Syria.
> 
>  On Jan 23, 2010, at 5:22 PM, Bashar wrote:
> 
>  السلام عليكم و رحمة الله تعالى و بركاته
>  "Prohibited Persons
>  You represent you are not a person on a list barring you from
>  receiving services under U.S. laws or other applicable jurisdiction,
>  including without limitations, the Denied Persons List and the
>  Entity List, and other lists issued by the U.S. Department of
>  Commerce, Bureau of Industry and Security, detailed at
>  [4]http://www.bis.doc.gov/complianceandenforcement/ListsToCheck.htm
>  (or successor sites thereto). Users residing in countries on the
>  United States Office of Foreign Assets Control sanction list,
>  including Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Sudan and Syria, may not post
>  Content to, or access Content available through, SourceForge.net."
>  copy from SF Terms Of Use [5]http://wa9.la/c1x
>  seems time to shift your projects or atleast have a copy of them at
>  [6]code.google.com , but who knows google is a US based company
>  might banned these too in future...
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> References
> 
>  1. http://sf.net/
>  2. mailto:maja at xs4all dot nl
>  3. http://code.google.com/tos.html
>  4. http://www.bis.doc.gov/complianceandenforcement/ListsToCheck.htm
>  5. http://wa9.la/c1x
>  6. http://code.google.com/
>  7. mailto:General at arabeyes dot org
>  8. http://lists.arabeyes.org/mailman/listinfo/general
>  9. mailto:General at arabeyes dot org
>  10. http://lists.arabeyes.org/mailman/listinfo/general
>  11. http://e3rab.com/

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